Johnson, who won the 2007 Masters, will speak tonight at the Young Business Leaders' fall banquet at Birmingham's Harbert Center. He made the drive up to Tuscaloosa to check out the Crimson Tide's football and golf facilities.

Johnson's conversation had enough of an impact on Saban to make it into the opening statement.

"He said there's three parts to this: the mental part, the physical
part and the technical part," Saban said. "And that's so right in his game, our game,
whatever."

Saban used Johnson's words to transition into his message about Alabama's need to improve its consistency.

"We need to improve the way we prepare to gain
more consistency in performance when we play the game. That's a lot to
do with us as coaches. We're responsible for that," Saban said. "Players have to be
responsible for that. Everybody's got to be responsible for their
part. It's not only just getting the assignments, it's having the
repetition to do it correctly and then be able to carry it to the game
so that you can execute it properly."

Saban, an avid golfer, was asked if Johnson would help him with his short game.

"He just stopped by to say hello," Saban said. "We gave him a
tour of the building.

"I'm not working on anything except Ole Miss. not
that my short game doesn't need it. But I don't have to worry about that
until March."